A joint examination by BBC News Arabic and OCCRP has uncovered new associations between the extravagant Captagon drug exchange and driving individuals from the Syrian Military and President Bashar al-Assad’s loved ones.
Captagon, an exceptionally habit-forming amphetamine-like medication, has spread from the Center East to Europe, Africa, and Asia.
New Captagon Drug Trade Link
The examination uncovered messages demonstrating the cooperation of Hezbollah and the Syrian military in the creation and circulation of Captagon.
Syria’s economy intensely depends on the medication exchange, with the Assad system possibly unfit to make due assuming Captagon incomes were upset.
Captagon is an exceptionally habit-forming amphetamine-like medication that has tormented the Center East lately.
Throughout the last year, the BBC has shot with the Jordanian and Lebanese armed forces, noticing their missions to stop Captagon being pirated across the boundaries into their nations from Syria.
- Presently the medication is being tracked down in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
- Regardless of authorizations forced on people associated with the exchange.
- Proof proposes the contribution of extra senior Syrian authorities.
In Spring, England, the US and the European Association forced sanctions on a rundown of individuals – including two cousins of President Assad – associated with contributions to the Captagon exchange.
Yet, the BBC’s examination, somewhere inside Syria’s narco-state, has found proof demonstrating the association of other senior Syrian authorities notwithstanding those all around remembered for that rundown.
Syria’s administration has not answered the BBC’s solicitation for input. In any case, it has recently denied any association with the medication exchange.
